ClinicaliQ Trial Snapshot
- Using Mentalization Based Therapy to Support Children and Adolescents Referred to Specialist Mental Health Services in the NHS for Aggressive and/or Violent Behaviour — Recruiting • Non-phase study • Respiratory / COPD / Asthma • NCT07091721.
- What is being tested: The MICA Study evaluates the effectiveness of mentalization-based therapy (MBT)—a psychological intervention that helps young people understand their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviours—as a treatment for children and adolescents presenting with aggressive and/or violent behaviour in NHS specialist….
- Patient eligibility overview: The trial includes children and adolescents referred to specialist NHS mental health services specifically for aggressive and/or violent behaviour presentations, representing a clinical population with significant functional impairment and risk.
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What This Trial Is Studying
The MICA Study is a research project that has been designed to work out how helpful mentalisation based therapy is. This is a new type of support that helps young people make sense of their own behaviours and feelings, and those of others. It involves meeting regularly with a mental health practitioner and parents/carers can be involved in some meetings too. It is hoped that this new type of support will help young people stop acting aggressively/violently. This project will be delivered in Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services…
Eligibility Snapshot
- : * Age 10-17 years at the time of referral; * Aggression and/or violence are indicated at referral or assessment; * Participation in the evaluation would not interfere with statutory orders; * Child and parent/carer (for children 10-15 years) are able to consent and engage with the study materials; * Living in the community at time of referral and no imminent plans to move to hospital, residential, or secure settings. Additional inclusion criteria for participants recruited from a clinician's existing caseload: * There has been no direct contact between child and FCAMHS clinicians, including assessments. * There has been no indirect therapeutic support provided by FCAMHS e.g. advising non-FCAMHS professionals on therapeutic support. * It is permissible for the clinician to have previously engaged in consultation activities where these did not involve contact with the child.
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